antiquate
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The state made its own luck by allowing its ferry fleet to antiquate and amass $270 million in deferred maintenance.
From Seattle Times ● Jan. 21, 2024
His first move in office was to antiquate newspaper files throughout the world by shaving his mustache and buying a new hat: a stiff, eminently correct black Homburg.
From Time Magazine Archive
It calls for payment of $8,000,000,000 from the U. S. Treasury to build $500,000-a-mile, crow-flight highways which would antiquate for express travel most existing routes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Whilst these were under discussion, new matter of complaint came over, which seemed to antiquate the first.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 02 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Soul, mind, spirit, these old and simple words are the strongest, the profoundest, the surest; age cannot antiquate them, nor science undo them; they last with the rocks, and still go beyond.
From The Three Devils: Luther's, Milton's, and Goethe's With Other Essays by Masson, David
The formula, which originated in 1945, is as antiquated as drive-in theaters.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 21, 2026
Michel’s son, Matt, has sought to modernize the team with a score-keeping app that has proved more reliable than Michel’s antiquated paper method.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 26, 2026
Warsh strongly hinted the Fed would do the same, rather than rely primarily on incomplete or outdated government data collected through antiquated methods.
From Barron's ● Jun. 18, 2026
So what’s the catalyst for his noteworthy preoccupation with masculinity and all these archetypal characters who embody its antiquated themes?
From Salon ● May 27, 2026
They were in the radio room now—with its already subtly antiquated equipment, untouched for the ten years previous to their arrival.
From "I, Robot" by Isaac Asimov
One would represent me as attempting to undermine our native tongue; another, as modernizing; a third, as antiquating it.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 104, June, 1866 by Various
Of Chatterton's method of antiquating something has already been said.
From The Rowley Poems by Chatterton, Thomas
